nates

American  

[ney-teez] / ˈneɪ tiz /

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. buttocks; rump.

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nates British  

/ ˈneɪtiːz /

plural noun

1. a technical word for the buttocks See buttock

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Etymology

Origin of nates

1675–85; < Latin natēs, plural of natis; generally used in the plural; akin to Greek nôton the back

Example Sentences

One reason�perhaps the main reason�why Samaras has been such an upsetting presence in New York is that his privacy alter nates with moments of obsessive, and for some people embarrassing self-display.

From Time Magazine Archive

Orson Welles is both director and star of this amalgam of scenes from five of Shakespeare's history plays in which the Bard's "bombard" of a buffoon domi nates the stage.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such children may be ultimately attacked by indolent ulcers on the nates and lower extremities, the results of urinous excoriations.'

From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by Napheys, George H. (George Henry)

A. Normal: Hand, foot, breasts, nates, hair, secretions and excretions, etc.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Ellis, Havelock

They spoil and make fools of themselves: "Humani qualis simulator simius oris, Quern puer arridens pretioso stamine serum Velavit, nudasque nates ac terga reliquit, Ludibrium mensis."

From The Essays of Montaigne — Complete by Montaigne, Michel de